How To Compress Images

Step 3. Select Save As from the file menu of the Ifranview program.

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Step 4. Click on the Option button in the lower right corner. Select save progressive and a save quality of 30.Then click OK. This assumes a jpeg image. This will apply to the majority of all auction images.

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Step 5. Change the name of your image so that you always have the original to make any other compression changes.

Compressed Image at 15,000 Bytes. 10-1 compression.

4 Quick Web Graphics Tips Tips for making Web graphics small, fast, and smooth.

TIP #1 Save images in the right file format. Images with large areas of solid color (such as vector graphics or illustrations) should be saved as GIFs. Images with lots of shading or gradients (such as photos) should be saved in JPEG format. Very small photos are the exception, as it's usually better to save them as GIFs.Compression Basics http://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/compress.html 

TIP #2 Resize images in a graphics program (never resize images with the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes of the IMG tag). Save images using a good compression utility.

TIP #3 If you try to code the background color of a Web page to match the background of an image placed on the page, the colors may not exactly match in all browsers. To help avoid color shift problems, create a small GIF (16x16 pixels or so) of the desired color and use it as a background tile.

Tip #4 Cropping an Image reduces the overall physical size of an image and allows you to save only the part of the image important to the photograph .Cropping allows you to create a small, fast loading, thumbnail image for the pilot directory etc.